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This week, the government will adopt a decision to partially reimburse farmers for the cost of Ukrainian-made compound mineral fertilizers.

Starokostiantynivtsukor, a plant that is part of A’SPIK Group, is implementing a large-scale investment project to modernize its production facilities.

A team of authors and developers has prepared a unique course consisting of 24 video lectures on the Prometheus platform in cooperation with the Royal Agricultural University (RAU, United Kingdom), Sumy National Agrarian University (SNAU, Ukraine), the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH, Switzerland) and the NGO «Green Agro Solutions» (Ukraine). The free online course «Sustainable Farming: Technologies, Profitability, Innovation» is now available on the Prometheus platform.

Ukrainian wheat and flour fully comply with European Union standards.

In January-June 2026, Ukraine agreed on 23 new export destinations and trade conditions for domestic agricultural and food products, already exceeding the result for the whole of 2025, when 22 new markets were opened.

A combination of factors has contributed to the record-low area planted with sugar beets this year. One of the key reasons is the low price of sugar.

Many experts and practitioners note that Ukraine is likely to experience an investment boom after victory, and relevant funds are already preparing for it. However, it is difficult to predict the exact timeframe and the risks that may remain. At the same time, Ukraine continues to maintain its investment attractiveness even under current conditions.

The EU–Ukraine Association Agreement provides for a review of trade quotas every five years. However, due to the full-scale war and the introduction of the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATM) regime, the timeline has shifted, and the next quota review is expected on January 1, 2028. At the same time, if Ukraine accelerates its integration into the European Union, there may be an opportunity to return to a free sugar trade regime.

Orion.Group, a Kyiv region-based manufacturer of stainless steel equipment and storage tanks, has launched a mobile production complex unique to Ukraine. This format enables metal bending, welding, and polishing operations to be carried out directly at customer sites rather than at the company’s factory.

Ukraine is among the regions warming faster than the global average and outpacing worldwide temperature growth rates. According to scientific research, the global average temperature has already increased by more than 1°C, while in Ukraine the average temperature has risen locally by more than 3°C.

The enemy continues to terrorize the peaceful Odesa region and is trying to obstruct the work of the Ukrainian sea corridor. Today, russians attacked two cargo ships flying the flags of Barbados and Panama in the Black Sea with drones strikes, which were sailing through the sea corridor.

China doubled its imports of sunflower meal in the 2025/26 marketing year following the suspension of Canadian canola meal supplies. At the same time, Ukraine and Kazakhstan increased their shares in supplying this product to the Chinese market, while russia’s share declined.

According to the results of January–May 2026, Ukraine’s trade turnover showed a significant imbalance. During this period, goods worth $40.5 billion were imported into the country, while export volumes were more than twice as low — only $17.5 billion.

The direct losses suffered by Ukraine’s agricultural sector as a result of the full-scale war and Russian attacks have exceeded $11 billion.

As of 2024, the area under organic raspberry cultivation in Ukraine is estimated at 400–700 hectares. This remains a relatively small figure compared to the country’s total raspberry area of 6,000–7,500 hectares. The key raspberry-producing regions are Zhytomyr, Volyn, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, and Zakarpattia oblasts.

As a result of a massive Russian attack on the night of June 2, one of the destroyed facilities was the warehouse of RUTA, a bitter liqueur (balm) created from 96 botanicals collected from different regions of Ukraine. Support from Ukrainians has inspired the producers to resume production of the premium bitter liqueur.

AGROTRADE Group has won a court case against the Russian Federation seeking compensation for damages amounting to UAH 117 million caused during the occupation of the Kharkiv region.

In Ukraine, more than 10 hectares are planted under the «clean» «Liubasha» garlic variety, which is currently being cultivated in the Khmelnytskyi region by breeder and copyright holder of the garlic variety Ivan Zakharenko.

Kernel is developing its own sunflower oil brand in Europe, launched in 2024 in partnership with Dutch food distribution company Fangoo&Zon Impex. To date, 5.5 million liters of products have been sold in the Netherlands under the Bestolie&Kernel trademark.